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If monuments could speak, the Cheapside Cross would
have told a tale of kingly love, civic pride, and sectarian violence. The Cross, pictured but not labelled on the
Agas map, stood in Cheapside between Friday Street and Wood
Street. St. Peter Westcheap lay to its
west, on the north side of Cheapside. The
prestigious shops of
Cheapside, one of the most important streets in early modern London, ran east-west between the Great Conduit at the foot of Old Jewry to the Little Conduit by St. Paul’s churchyard. The terminus of all the northbound streets from the river, the broad expanse of Cheapside separated the northern wards from the southern wards. It was lined with buildings three, four, and even five stories tall, whose shopfronts were open to the light and set out with attractive displays of luxury commodities (Weinreb and Hibbert 148). Cheapside was the centre of London’s wealth, with many mercers’ and goldsmiths’ shops located there. It was also the most sacred stretch of the processional route, being traced both by the linear east-west route of a royal entry and by the circular route of the annual mayoral procession.
As the only bridge in London crossing the Thames until
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Source: The dolefull lamentation of cheap-side
crosse: or old England sick of the staggers. London, 1641. Wing
D1837. Sig. A1r, A4r, and A4v.
The prose passage transcribed here comes from a short pamphlet on
religious dissent. The pamphlet is a single quarto gathering of eight
leaves. The pamphlet advertises itself as a lamentation by the Eleanor Cross in Cheapside; the title page
is illustrated with a woodcut image of the cross showing the four levels
of the cross with niches for statuary, the railing around the cross, and
three male figures pointing at the cross. Speeches or laments made by
buildings or monuments were not uncommon in the literature of early
modern London. In such texts, the urbs functions as the non-partisan voice of the constructed
city. Sometimes, the personified building or monument is the voice of a
parent lamenting over illness or strife. In other cases, the speaker
appears to be impartial but takes the side of one of the groups within
the conflicted communitas. In this
pamphlet, the Cross’s speech concludes a third-person critique of
sectarianism.
The transcription is diplomatic.
TEI tagging of places and personal names on
I, Iaſper Croſſe, ſcituated in
Cheap-ſide, London, vpon Munday night,
being the 24 of Ianuarie, the ſigne
being in the head and face, which made me the more ſuffer; and in the
yeare one thouſand ſixe hundred forty and one, when almoſt everie man is
to ſeek a new Religion; and being then high water at London Bridge, as their
braines and heads were full of malice and envy: I the foreſaid Iaſper Croſſe was aſſaulted and
battered in the Kings high way, by many violent and inſolent minded
people, or rather ill-affected Brethren; and whether they were in the
heighth of zeale, or elſe overcome with paſſion , or new wine lately
come from New-England, I cannot be
yet reſolved; but this I am ſure, and it may bee plainly ſeen by all
that paſſe by me, that I was much abuſed and defaced, by a ſort of
people which I cannot terme better than a mad and giddy headed
multitude, who were gathered together from all parts, to wrong my
antiquity, and ancient renowned name, ſo much ſpoken of in forraine
parts. Had I ever done theſe my Brethren the leaſt offence, I ſhould be
ſorrie, and am ſtill willing to ſubmit and referre my ſelfe to the grave
and moſt juſt Senators now aſſembled.
Love and charity, thoſe my brethren had none at all; for what benefit or
credite did it bring to them to come by night like theeves, to ſteale
from me here a leg, there a head, here an arm, and there a noſe; they
did all goe away from mee the Croſſe with
profit: they have not done me ſo much diſhonor as they have done
themſelves, and the honourable City, whoſe civill government is a
patterne to all Nations: But I will tell you, my croſtebearing or wearing a cross
(Thwarted
(Having a
’cross’ to bear
(Given to opposition
(Ill-tempered, peevish, petulant
(An
underhand means or expedient for making an attack or attaining some
sinister object; usually, a pretext put forward for this purpose
.
(Having a traverse direction
(cut on the bias
A trial or affliction
(finding fault
with the
wives of rich men, will turn the husbands into cuckolds Ieffrey Croſſe leave you to your
croſſe wives, and your own croſſe opinions.